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Obamas Grant First Interview

By Bill Carter November 13, 2008 5:48 pmNovember 13, 2008 5:48 pm

“60 Minutes” has landed the first post-election interview of President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle for this coming Sunday.

CBS News announced Thursday that the Obamas will sit down Friday in Chicago to speak with the “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft. The interview is expected to fill more than one segment on the broadcast. It may fill the entire hour.

Mr. Kroft last week interviewed Mr. Obama’s senior staff about the planning of his campaign. The program attracted more than 18 million viewers, the most of any show in television last week.

In August, Mr. Kroft and “60 Minutes” also presented the first joint interview with Mr. Obama and his running mate Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Yes, of course, the Obama’s are selling right now; and will continue doing so. They are the The First Couple, First Family and add a huge first (pun intended) for the US.

Long live the First Couple. May their faces always represent the transformation of what our founders stated…in order to become a more perfect union. America is even greater now that inspiration are being shouted here, at home, and around the world.

I would prefer that Mrs Obama would not be part of this interview. First I think there is too much “business” to discuss. Although Mrs Obama has been important in the past and the future, right now we need to hear from the future president. Secondly there might not have been a source of stimulation to the nastiness of those who wish to make political points at the expense of fostering cooperation between political opponents. In this case I refer to Reality. But I am more interested in the futile nature of the activity than I am in whom the activity is directed against.

The Obama victory feels like nothing else. At no other time have I been a proud American. I should say that since I was born, I have been a loyal American, one willing to die for his country.

I spent a lot of time living abroad (six years to this day) sticking up for silly, stupid and failed American policies. That’s what good Americans do: they blend in and fight for national policy. No matter how far away, all Americans are attached to that and those who don’t get it should go home.

Lately, things are different.

I have supported Brack Obama since he started running. Actually, since before. A friend who was at the DNC in 2004 told me about his speech. We were drunk and sitting around our fireplace in Baku, Azerbaijan because our electricity was cut off. I liked what the guy had to say. I nodded as he told me about his speech second hand.

I am tired of the media making a big deal about our future president’s race. Yes. You are right, he is a black man. OK. Great. But that’s not why he was elected.

Stop making race an issue. Taft was the first fat guy. Lincoln the first tall one. Can we move on?

All Americans are going to face a wave of hell in the coming months. We elected the only man who can deal with it. We elected our last great hope. He happens to be black. Maybe I’ve been away too long, but I am growing weary of this issue.

I’ve been bouncing back and forth between Russia and the Persian Gulf. Maybe that’s what has skewed my perception. Anyway, America–let’s go. We have talent in the White House. Let’s work hard.

This is such a grand opportunity for us as Americans to hear from our President Elect and First Lady. We are so excited to feel so connected to the hope they inspired and can’t wait for the unfolding of the change that’s a comin’! We have this feeling that this is another ‘transformative’ time in our history and we are living and learning from it and want it to make a real difference in the things that really count. All our children will have the opportunities we had, with decent healthcare, good education and hope for their future. We will decrease the percent of those in poverty, by working to ‘share the wealth’ with all Americans. We will work towards everyone having the opportunity to work if they so desire, because God calls us to ‘fruitful labor’ and everyone deserves the dignity of earning their way. We will regain our influence in the world by ‘using the power of our example versus the example of our power’. It is an exciting time to be an American!

It’s interesting how the first-lady and the first-lady elect are excluded from the conversation about national economic and security challenges. They just went off to look at the residential part of the White House? Why isn’t there a report of a converstaion between Laura Bush and Michelle Obama with some intellectual substance? The reported content of the conversation between George Bush and Barack Obama; and Laura Bush and Michelle Obama seems to indicate that despite living in the 21st century, the role of a first-lady is confined by her gender.

I just hope people like Reality are still the face of the Republican party in 2010 and 2012. I pray that Sarah Palin is their leader as candidate for President and I look forward to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh being their biggest mouthpieces.

I think this will be a great post-interview. It’s good that Michelle Obama is included to keep the conversation on topic and out of Obama’s administration plans. I would be pleased to hear just a conversation about how life has been since the day of election, how the girls are doing and reflections from our President-Elect and his wife. There’s no need at this point to talk about plans, rehash campaign issues or live in the past. We are going forward.

It is so great that the majority of the country is seeming coming togather and basking in the glow that Barack Obama is the president -elect of our country, and soon will be our president. I makes my heart glow that we are cheering for the best candidate that ran for the office and not just because that candidate was black, white, red, yellow or brown, but simply because the best candidate emerged the winner.

As Michelle Obama said, for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country. We as a country is growing up. YES, in my lifetime

One of the most important hopes for the future has been demonstrated here in comments about the 60 Minutes interview with Michelle and Barack Obama – that we will redefine politics from the hateful, spiteful competitive trash talking nonsense to substantive discussion of what is best for all Americans.

Major reasons why Barack Obama was the best candidate for president include his family as an example of simple American values and his calm, deliberate voice speaking of a better future amid negative attacks and hateful epitaphs. President-elect Obama represents the best of what America offers the world.

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